12Breath analysis

12 Breath analysis (1) A person who has been taken into custody under section 11 must give, in accordance with the reasonable directions of a police officer (the requesting police officer), a sample of the person’s breath for breath analysis. (2) A breath analysis must be carried out by an authorised operator. (3) A regulation may make provision in relation to the following: (a) the conditions for carrying out breath analysis; (b) the procedures to be followed in relation to carrying out breath analysis; (c) the circumstances in which the result of a breath analysis must be disregarded for this Act. (4) If, because of a regulation made for subsection (3) (c), the result of a breath analysis must be disregarded for this Act, the requesting police officer may, if another breath analysis instrument is available at the police station or other place where the requirement under subsection (1) is made, require the person to give, in accordance with the officer’s reasonable directions, a sample of the person’s breath for breath analysis using another breath analysis instrument. (5) As soon as practicable after the breath analysis has been carried out, the authorised operator who carried out the analysis must give the person a written statement, signed by the operator, containing the particulars required by regulation to be included in the statement. Example––written statement a print-out from the breath analysis instrument